Sampling (statistics)

Lottery machine

A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery. Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container. In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine called ERNIE. (Wikipedia).

Lottery machine
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Solution Problem #7 Lottery Difficult

Solution Problem #7 Lottery Difficult

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Python Tutorial: Simulate the Powerball Lottery Using Python

In this Python Programming video, we will be learning how to simulate the Powerball lottery using Python. I have seen several lottery simulations online, but not many of them go in-depth to calculate all of the possible combinations. Here, we will create a simulation that goes through ever

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Probability Puzzle With Clever Solution: Increasing Lottery Numbers

A lottery draws 5 different numbers from the numbers 1 to 60. What is the probability the numbers are all increasing or all decreasing? What if a lottery ticket draws k distinct numbers from 1 to n? Watch the video for a solution. My blog post for this video https://wp.me/p6aMk-53T If yo

From playlist Statistics And Probability

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Hand punch machine 1

Combination of gear drive and slider-crank mechanism. Inventor files of this video: http://www.mediafire.com/file/g440tz6eu1brn9c/HandPunch1Inv.zip/file

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Just For Fun! - Statistics (2 of 2) The Probability of Winning the Powerball Lottery

Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! In this video I will explain how to calculate the probability of winning the Powerball Lottery. First video in this series can be seen at: https://youtu.be/mJbNshVJOI8 Next video for Just For Fun! series (Why We Can Nev

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How do I make a round dice set?

Today I will make some unusual dice. They will not be square but round and we will make them completely out of metal, with a wooden stand. Enjoy! #dice#W&M#lathe

From playlist Random problems

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Odds of Winning the Lottery

Which tips and tricks actually work according to probability laws? I discuss the three tips that work to increase your odds of winning the lottery, plus several that do not.

From playlist Contests and Sweepstakes odds

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When BERT Plays the Lottery, All Tickets Are Winning (Paper Explained)

BERT is a giant model. Turns out you can prune away many of its components and it still works. This paper analyzes BERT pruning in light of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis and finds that even the "bad" lottery tickets can be fine-tuned to good accuracy. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Overview 1:20 - BERT

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14.2: The Code (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) - Hamilton Lottery Simulator with p5.js

In this video, I cover the basics of simulating a lottery in JavaScript. How do you pick a random number to determine if you have won or not? How do you keep track of how many times you have played the lottery? How do you display the results on a webp Source code: https://github.com/sh

From playlist 14: Hamilton Lottery Simulator with p5.js

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The Hardware Lottery (Paper Explained)

#ai #research #hardware We like to think that ideas in research succeed because of their merit, but this story is likely incomplete. The term "hardware lottery" describes the fact that certain algorithmic ideas are successful because they happen to be suited well to the prevalent hardware

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Python Tutorial 17

Playing the lottery How many times will you have to play before you win the jackpot?

From playlist Python

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IPAM: "Some People Have All the Luck" - Skip Garibaldi, Lawrence Mower, and Philip B. Stark

IPAM Public Lecture: "Some People Have All the Luck" Presented by Skip Garibaldi, Lawrence Mower, and Philip B. Stark April 28, 2014 CNSI Auditorium For more information: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/PUBLEC2014/

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The Samaritani Formula – Adam Atkinson

The Samaritani Formula seems at first sight to be a piece of nonsense spread by people selling lottery advice in Italy, but actually it's real maths they've interpreted badly.

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Counting Principle, Permutations, and Combinations

I work through the Fundamental Counting Principle at the beginning of the lesson. At 6:03 I use the idea of playing the lottery to develop the idea of Permutations and Combinations. At 15:00 I give the formulas for Permutations nPr and Combinations nCr and work through two last examples.

From playlist PreCalculus

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Gambling: Crash Course Games #27

Today we’re going to talk about gambling. Now, gambling is interesting because it could be argued that gambling doesn’t even have anything to do with games. It’s usually about making money after all - which makes it much closer to work. But gambling definitely has a gaming component from i

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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking - with Jordan Ellenberg

The maths we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. Jordan Ellenberg shows how wrong this view is through stories that show the power of mathematical thinking. Buy Jordan's book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Ever

From playlist Mathematics

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The Computer Chronicles - Computers and Gambling (1987)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

From playlist Computer Chronicles Episodes on Software

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How to Use Math to Get Rich in the Lottery* - Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin–Madison)

For seven years, a group of students from MIT exploited a loophole in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Cash WinFall game to win drawing after drawing, eventually pocketing more that $3 million. How did they do it? How did they get away with it? And what does this all have to do with mathe

From playlist Mathematics Research Center

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Simple Machines (1 of 7) Pulleys; Defining Forces, Distances and MA

For the pulley simple machine this video defines the terms input and output force, input and output distance and mechanical advantage. A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction and the magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanis

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